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Annals of the South African Museum. 



deeply notched behind third branched ray ; last simple ray not 

 enlarged, smooth, anterior branched rays also much elongate, 

 If times length of head. Anal iii 5 ; reaching beyond root of caudal. 

 Pectoral a little longer than head, not reaching ventral ; base of 

 latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1 times as long as 



FIG. 53. Barbus altidorsalis. -J. 



deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 28 j|, 2 between lateral line and 

 ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 



Brownish above, the scales darker at the base, pink on the sides, 

 white beneath ; fins yellow, blackish towards the edge. 



Total length 360 millim. 

 Upper Zambezi." 



24. BARBUS RHODESIANUS, Blgr. 



Bouleng., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1902, ii., p. 14, pi. ii., fig. 2, Mem. 

 Manchest. Philos. Soc., Ii., 1907, No. 12, p. 2, and Cat. Fresh. 

 Fish. Afr., ii., p. 95, fig. 74 (1911). 



" Depth of body 3J to 3f times in total length, length of head 

 4 to 4f times. Snout rounded, ^ length of head ; eye 3f to 4^ times 

 in length of head, interorbital width 2^ times; mouth inferior, its 



